Saturday 24 March 2012

Greetings from Mississippi


We are proud to announce that we will be performing The Unsatisfactory Supper in The Tennessee Project, May 1st to 7th. The Unsatisfactory Supper is set in the 1940's in Mississippi and features poorly cooked greens, poems of nature - and full on Southern accents!

Reuniting after The Story of Mrs. Winchester, the cast includes Sarah Grange as Baby Doll, Neil Brown as Archie Lee and Erin Hamilton as Aunt Rose. The show is directed by Rebecca Young Hart and stage managed by Melissa Wright. Joining the team on costumes is Katie Munden, who previously worked on DANFORTH.

Is something here maybe ringing a bell for ya? Baby Doll is also the title of the 1956 film directed by Elia Kazan, featuring Karl Malden, Carroll Baker and Eli Wallach. The screenplay was inspired by both The Unsatisfactory Supper and another Tennessee one act, 27 Wagons Full of Cotton.


Performance Dates:

Tuesday, May 1st The Annex: The Annex Live
Wednesday, May 2nd Roncesvalles: TBA
Thursday, May 3rd North York: TBA
Friday, May 4th St. Clair West: Galleria 814
Saturday, May 5th Cabbagetown: Kiwanis Boys and Girls Clubs
Sunday, May 6th The Danforth: Magic Oven (Discounted Pizza and Beer)
Monday, May 7th Leslieville: The Curzon

Life on the Danforth

Working on DANFORTH allowed us to reach out to many different artists, not just the wonderful actors we collaborated with. In addition to our talented prop and costume department, we also had the opportunity to work with Nate Archer - an all around talent! Not only did he design our set, he also took some great shots along the Danforth. NateArcher.ca coming soon!

-Erin













Tuesday 6 March 2012

Inside a gino's closet...

You already know what is inside my closet, so now we can further explore the other eccentric costumes we used during DANFORTH. Each character was extremely unique and their costumes needed to reflect this. In fact, the script itself even had very specific costume requirements, including a turtle neck in August, a shirt that laced up in the front, fanny packs and roller blades - but those are another story! Fortunately we had the help of the oh-so-talented Tarin Gill and Katie Munden to put together our gino and gina styles. Here's a peak at a few more goodies from our photo vault.

- Erin